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BingoBoingo:
<neuroMode> or at least create an environment where altcoins are not taken anymore seriously than cards at a blackjack table
<< I doubt you understand how serious blackjack is
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu> arguably franco spain was the last white thing.
<< Well, until 2011
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: mypersonal favourite is the SummerCoinV2 whitepaper
<< iut's fucking disgraceful these idiots are allowed to use any words they wish. bring back the classroom ruler i say.
mircea_popescu: neuroMode: i wonder how many actual devs there are making these coins. Its likea fucking business now. I bet its like 5 groups of guys
<< more like 3.
mircea_popescu: neuroMode: I think Brian Kelly is shooting himself in the foot by listening to the cryptogoblins pushing for POS
<< i still don't see how exactly they figure pos does anything, bitcoin is fucking white enough w/o it. but anyway, naut actually means chickpeas in romanian.
mircea_popescu: FoOdies5: and now the daughter wants to be born on my b-day
<< it's pretty good sharing a bday with your daughter. you can take her drinking.
BingoBoingo:
<mircea_popescu> he recently convinced weev to "go the kickstarter route", with results that still make people lol.
<< Weev is going to learn the hard way he isn't old enough for Taleb or even Orlov's deference
mircea_popescu: fluffypony: and I think Weiner et. al. convinced him it could be "bigger" than an experiment
<<< kinda remind me of the pernicious influence of max keiser, with his couple of scamcoins.
mircea_popescu: FoOdies5: what the fuck can you stabilize with a premine ? maybe keep the coin from going up
<<< this is exactly correct . the braindamage going on here is that fuckwits understand you need resources to prop a coin, and lackin any resources they wish to... borrow them. since they're making a coin anyway it's ~easier~ to roll both into one. that this reduces to trying to pull yourself up by your own breeches is not some
BingoBoingo: asciilifeform> ben_vulpes: the shack has a sealed wooden floor, level enough for most purposes
<< Given your humidity this isn;t a permanent solution>
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu pronounced cairo kay-ro all over egypt, to much botherment of everyone.
<< You would get along nicely in the first place the Blacks won the Civil rights movement in the US.
mircea_popescu: kakobrekla: this thing is like a virus.
<< it's like two viruses making out.
ben_vulpes:
<asciilifeform> ben_vulpes: this normally requires 3-phase mains. and... a crane. and a concrete slab to park it...
<< crane's unnecessary. mill needen't be *that* big.
BingoBoingo:
<mike_c> Actual facts have been known since late 2012. Coinabul indeed broke bad.
BingoBoingo: I can send the females. No putting your penis inside them tho as form of payment. :P
<< I assume this is a part of the process
mircea_popescu: @SecondMarket Can I be CEO?
<< no tat, that' the onl;y thing you can't be. everything elkse tho..
mircea_popescu: kuzetsa: I'm flattered I suppose --- someone from here (presumably) is vaguely stalking me & now following me on twitter O_O
<< you knwo, someone following you on twitter is not stalking in any sense.
BingoBoingo:
<asciilifeform> hence 'theoretical'
<< Home depot uzi is a more feasible thing the 3d printed
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell chetty "
<<" has won over "//"
ben_vulpes: ;;later tell thickasthieves "
<<" has won over "//"
mircea_popescu: Barbara Jean "B.J." Geardello
<< this is a sort of gear bordello ?
mike_c: BingoBoingo:Apparently this dude who couldn't hit for a couple months is now actually in the rookie of the year race
<< lol. this is the bet you were swearing was ridiculous a few months ago right?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu>
<BingoBoingo> Also apparently mircea_popescu is unwelcome in West Virginia
<< how do you know she wasn't coming over to my place for a fuckvisit and taking her husband along for company ?
<< Well, I figure if you put up with the US Border shit you'd stay long enough to need to take the girls and various collected officials for a walk
mircea_popescu:
<BingoBoingo> Also apparently mircea_popescu is unwelcome in West Virginia
<< how do you know she wasn't coming over to my place for a fuckvisit and taking her husband along for company ?
BingoBoingo: mike_c> psh, anybody can do world domination
<< Napoleon could even take Ethiopia which was such an easy target the fucking Dagos took it a century later
BingoBoingo: ben_vulpes: b) to actually work as marketmaker
<< This is actually ATC's great innovation.
ben_vulpes:
<FoOdies5> maybe keep the coin from going up
<< and in the process acquire btc to drive it up. this is central banking 101, except one needs a) to not be a scammer and b) to actually work as marketmaker
BingoBoingo:
<fluffypony> I don't fundamentally have an issue with PoS as an experiment (albeit one doomed for failure at present)
<< Proof of Stake essentially lets big bagholders delude themselves longer by becoming still bigger bagholders
gribble: mircea_popescu was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 2 hours, 2 minutes, and 13 seconds ago:
<mircea_popescu> i didn't think the rss had propagated yet.
BingoBoingo: Implement “UTXO commitments” blockchain pruning and “fully validating but not full-history” nodes
<< Killing this is basically the goal of Fall 2014-2015
gribble: coingenuity was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 23 weeks, 6 days, 16 hours, 58 minutes, and 10 seconds ago:
<coingenuity> mircea_popescu: there's a lot of them
artifexd: because some regular there picked a fight. Very trustworthy when i comes to busines
<<< Moar lol
artifexd:
<gribble> New rating | birdman > 3 > danielpbarron | Holds alot of my btc, very knowlageable with cryptography, is childish and doesnt understand the web of trust. negative rated me for getting devoice on #bitcoin-assets. Rationalizes that he had to change the +2 he had for me to a -4 because of his appearence there. Not to mention i was devoiced there
artifexd:
<gribble> Rating change | Old rating 2 | New rating: danielpbarron > -4 > birdman | have known face-to-face for several years; currently an idiot, but there is still hope..
<<< LOL
ThickAsThieves:
<+asciilifeform> short it
<< outside my windows, a dead squirrel, buzzing with flies. how do i short it? /// the eternal question
mircea_popescu: "Why We Need a Foundation"
<< wrong question. who's "we" and more importantly, why we don't need another scam run by vesseness ?
mircea_popescu: assbot: A third of consumers with credit files had debts in collections last year - The Washington Post
<< clearly the economy's recovering o.O
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform> (in which case, what kind of fortress could possibly suffice)
<< hence the rape comment.
mircea_popescu:
<asciilifeform> mircea_popescu: an atm requires a fortress...
<< to house the mechanism itself? or, its owner?
<< yes.
gribble: vexual was last seen in #bitcoin-assets 1 day, 14 hours, 52 minutes, and 54 seconds ago:
<Vexual> ;;lasers
mircea_popescu: BingoBoingo: Yeah, Idiocracy being cruel doens't necessarily mean it is untrue
<<< kinda meh slapsticky nonsense imo, but hey.
mircea_popescu: asciilifeform: parallel construction; snore.
<< indeed. that idiot had no business no way and no means doing so many columbia flights.
mircea_popescu: jurov: good. would be 0.5BTC okay for both? i'll then add "sponsored by CoinBr" stuff
<< cool beanz
mircea_popescu: jurov: there may be one global, but there will always be plenty of local ones, often with contradicting information
<< now this i see.
assbot: -
<b>THE PRIZE OF PERIL
</b>
mike_c: thick_as_thieves:mike_c i love the analysis
<< thx :) it was fun.
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> ;;tell genericpersona that's not your call to make. now stop dicking around while you still have a dick to dick around with. // a dick with which to around?
BingoBoingo: mircea_popescu> you have got to be kidding me, 400k impressions a day is ludicrous. trilema does more than the tardstalk ?!
<< tardstalk has prolly already bored all the spooks
ben_vulpes:
<mike_c> i looked at the price for advertising and was shocked. 1 slot (which is 1/8 of impressions) for 1 week is going for ~3 btc
<< >?!
ben_vulpes:
<asciilifeform> gentlemen, wtf with the underscores ? // my handle's been outdated by reality for a long time now.
mircea_popescu:
<BingoBoingo> PCP is a dissociative anesthetic similar to ketamine, but with less effect on the ability to move skeletal muscles
<< exactly so.
mircea_popescu: "We charged him with sexual assault but our daughter would not cooperate and he was not convicted."
<< this doth not sound much like rape.
thick_as_thieves:
<+HeySteve> ;;tell thick_as_thieves ThickAsThieves: something like turn namecoin in a wot
<- was working on exactly this /// how's it going?
HeySteve: ;;tell thick_as_thieves ThickAsThieves: something like turn namecoin in a wot
<- was working on exactly this
thick_as_thieves:
<+moiety> i'm getting a better mic as well so things should sound better // which?
unseen: mircea_popescu:the cost with a car should be 5% the car, 95% the gas. not 95% the car then sit around it listening to music.
<< so basically stack of 600BTC recommended for a seat at the table
jurov:
<mircea_popescu> jurov: the solution is to not have one global wot for everything
<< i don't see it.
<< there may be one global, but there will always be plenty of local ones, often with contradicting information
mircea_popescu: thestringpuller: ben_vulpes: is copying mircea_popescu
<< no he's copying pete.
ben_vulpes:
<mircea_popescu> unseen you know what they say, best time to open a mpex acct was when it was free. 2nd best is now.
<< also, don't blow your btc stack on a seat.
mircea_popescu: rithm: right then we just devolve into some sort of ruling wot class
<< this is not properly called "devolve". this is improvement.
mircea_popescu: jurov: the solution is to not have one global wot for everything
<< i don't see it.
mircea_popescu: ThickAsThieves: now you can't escape the system
<< this is exactly true.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: well nanotube should make it so you can always give ratings, or maybe base it on an L2 thing like assbot does
<<< it already is. in order to be able to rate you need to be linked to google.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: rithm: but it's only harmful if 'total points' is a thing. joe schmoe isn't going to change thhe gettrust between you and others.
<<< if the wot db ends up larger than ten blockchains it may become a problem to host.
mircea_popescu: rithm: no one will document that and take it seriously
<< a) no you can't and b) i seem to recall footage of hruschev with his shoe.
mike_c: " it reflects the probability of a user being in your network."
<< who needs probabilities? gettrust works.
mircea_popescu: danielpbarron: i think all users should be able to give ratings; doesn't matter if they are trolls or scammers
<< it's not really a good idea, because spamming.
mircea_popescu: mike_c: nanotube: why show "total points" on rating page? i thought that was supposed to be a meaningless number.
<< it's not entirely meaningless. it reflects the probability of a user being in your network.
mircea_popescu: Blazedout419: for a business bad ratings can hurt more than for a regular user
<< this is widely held but empirically disproven. consider the muchly discussed case of bitbet.
mircea_popescu: The records turther detailed that the application was installed on an Apple iPhone that was titled 'Matthew Jones iphone.
<< secure minded fellow, he didn't use the carrier phone #, he got a special app.
mircea_popescu: On October 9, 2013, I made contact with CALIGIRL utilizing the Bitmessage program and the 'trusted' Bitmessage address CALIGIRL provided.
<< nice use of airquotes there lol
assbot: [14:27]
<Rallye> dude youre scamming me! [14:27]
<dynamite`> how so? [14:27]
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